[U-Boot] [PATCH] sf: Correct data types in stm_is_locked_sr()

[Jagan Teki]

On 11 March 2016 at 17:59, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> On 03/11/2016 07:39 AM, Jagan Teki wrote:
>> On 11 March 2016 at 07:50, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>>> The stm_is_locked_sr() function is picked from Linux kernel. For reason
>>> unknown, the 64bit data types used by the function and present in Linux
>>> were replaced with 32bit unsigned ones, which causes trouble.
>>>
>>> The testcase performed was done using ST M25P80 chip.
>>> The command used was:
>>>  => sf protect unlock 0 0x10000
>>>
>>> The call chain starts in stm_unlock(), which calls stm_is_locked_sr()
>>> with negative ofs argument. This works fine in Linux, where the "ofs"
>>> is loff_t, which is signed long long, while this fails in U-Boot, where
>>> "ofs" is u32 (unsigned int). Because of this signedness problem, the
>>> expression past the return statement to be incorrectly evaluated to 1,
>>> which in turn propagates back to stm_unlock() and results in -EINVAL.
>>>
>>> The correction is very simple, just use the correctly sized data types
>>> with correct signedness in the function to make it work as intended.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
>>> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>> Cc: Jagan Teki <jteki at openedev.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c | 6 +++---
>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c b/drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c
>>> index 2ae2e3c..44d9e9b 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c
>>> @@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ int sst_write_bp(struct spi_flash *flash, u32 offset, size_t len,
>>>
>>>  #if defined(CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_STMICRO) || defined(CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_SST)
>>>  static void stm_get_locked_range(struct spi_flash *flash, u8 sr, loff_t *ofs,
>>> -                                u32 *len)
>>> +                                u64 *len)
>>
>> What about uint64_t?
>
> This is now same as Linux too.

I couldn't find it on l2-mtd and ML as well, it is still uint64_t

-- 
Jagan.